NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – A Tuesday evening crash on Highway 29 injured two people and sent one of them to a regional trauma center with major injuries.
The two-vehicle wreck occurred at approximately 5:25 p.m. on the Napa County side of Mount St. Helena, according to the California Highway Patrol's Napa area office.
The names of the two drivers were not immediately available, but the CHP identified them as a 26-year-old Clearlake woman and a 60-year-old Santa Rosa man, both driving late model Toyotas, the models of which were not reported.
The CHP said the Clearlake driver was headed northbound on Highway 29 north of Tubbs Lane at an unknown speed when she attempted to overtake another vehicle that wasn't involved in the crash.
As she was exiting the passing lane she lost control and veered toward the southbound lane, hitting the right front of the Santa Rosa man's vehicle with the front of her Toyota, the CHP said.
The Clearlake driver had minor injuries, including lacerations, while the CHP said the driver from Santa Rosa had major injuries, among them lacerations and a fractured sternum.
An air ambulance landed nearby and transported the man to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, the CHP said.
The CHP said no arrests were made.
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